The financial life cycle

$1,000,000
$800,000
2)
SP $600,000
B
a
$400,000

$200,000

24

The 24-year-old invested

$2,000 per year for twelve
years. She stopped adding
money in, but her total still

grew. By age 67, she had
almost a million dollars!

Her friend did not invest until she
was 35. Even though she invested
$2,000 every year, by the time

she was 67 she still had not

caught up with her wiser friend.
She had less than $500,000.

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35

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50

Age

50

60

65

67